this week we still bombed a
school in syria if you type syria on
google on your phones or anywhere
where you will fall on an image that
I do not advise you to see that
destruction images that images of
dead than ugly horrible pictures
gray
I do not think any of us
would like us to talk about his country and
we talk about someone they love
in this way especially since for
me and for all other Syrians the
Syria was the place of our construction
and not our destruction month the
syria i know her i love her i ‘m here
born i grew up i’m mayor
it’s not a feat to eat nothing does
I was born at the epp precisely you
hear dahleb speak this city
destroyed
and yet lip for me if I
close your eyes I’ll ask you to
close them maybe with me the
first thing that comes to mind
it’s a beautiful smell a smell of
buns with cinnamon then a taste of
cherry and pistachio ice cream
there was under my grandparents’ house
there was a place a baker and
his brother who sold ice cream
it was right in front and then me my
childhood had gone from one street to
the other one a little bit of a breast
a piece of breast a piece of that was
magnificent
and if I close my eyes and I
grow a little bit more
I hear noises I hear the sound
world church bells
with the sound of the calls to prayer of the
Muslims who get tangled up
together and then I see bigeon
flying in the sky doing circles
also got wind from one place to another
they go on the bell tower
they go on the minaret they go on the
steeple they go on the minaret and that’s
like that too the series it was
for me the discovery of sexuality
of love the beauty of this
discovery one of them my body is
also it was the mans wonders and
the pride of belonging that I have
felt the first time I’m
entered a Syrian house a
Syrian traditional house is this
you know the houses
traditional Syrian all that we
tells you about the welcome on the sweetness
is summarized in these houses there one
often happens in homes
traditional Syrian walking
in small streets there is nothing around
of us it’s stone walls and then we
asks us to lower our head
to enter a small door age
you see better and mende market in
a corridor
and then all of a sudden we come across the
heaven on earth and it’s not a
joke it’s a little cocoon of paradise
on earth every house has its own
sky with its own stars each
house at its water basin in the center
with his cats dancing alkos and challans
and stairs that turns because the
rooms are up the living rooms are in
down and the inner courtyard to his
own fruit trees its apricots
will give up its cherries and jasmines that
are everywhere on walls that are like
Earth stars with smells
of perfumes the Syrian poets 10 of
Syrian houses that these are
females of the dice and that’s how it is
that we feel them and that I go in
every country in the world there is no country
which for me is as wonderful as
Syria not because it’s the most
beautiful country of the world but because it is
the country where at least I have experienced but
first wonder
this is the place where I have at least
felt the taste of life while
I was finally there today at 5.5
millions of Syrian children affected by
the war 5.5 million world and
crumbling Syrian houses destroyed
children who have seen things that they
should never have seen wounded
from the dead of the parents destroyed from
inside of the future to break the
trades collapsed entire neighborhoods
in ashes and then people and people
who leave the show with their
kids on their backs with packets
who leave they do not know where they are going
they not know where they go my
shares and these kids there they follow and
often they are a nuisance a little
because you have to give them something to eat
you need the islands
you have to be there for them but nobody
is there for them he followed
not understand and it’s horrible to
leave the children in front of this
misunderstanding I mean me no
the more I do not understand they understand
not only do they live from bereavement
and pain and we will all live
in life but what they understand
no is the question to which we do not
not answer and that no one can
answer that’s why we destroy the
life while she is so beautiful
why we continue to wage war
so she hurts us so badly
I confess that I am speechless
I do not know what to tell them maybe
we must not tell them an attempt to
try to answer the question we
the same while doing life
because the great victim of the war
it’s life itself
it is she who suffers and the war
is not a reason to love
more life on the contrary war is
the reason to love life even more
and that’s people in syria who
have learned that they teach us
people you do not hear about
we hear the sound of the bombs we hear
the noise of chaos we hear the noise the
policy
we hear the horrible din of all
that we hear people leaving the
country the refugee stories but this
we hear because we do not know
it is that in Syria even there are
gardeners and fashion designers and
seamstresses who are quietly
with a thread and a needle it’s
small arms who are they are trying
to close the earth where it hurts
they are repairing syria
where it man what they are doing
then in the besieged areas
there are some who plant gardens that
created gardens and vegetable gardens for
to make vegetables to eat because we
can not find food in the areas
besieged in the destroyed areas
there is one who decides to create
small schools that invites these
neighborhood kids who make them
school at home and who center who
are together helping each other
there are some who create circles of
solidarity there are women one of whom
friend of mine who left everything here who
was returning to Syria to create a
sewing workshop with women
are all happy to create
small items they sell for
survive there is also this dad at alep
in a destroyed neighborhood that decided
to bring around him children from
neighborhood and that they had together
paint in buses of all colors and
the wound the bus of the future is mounted
in
and like that he had crossed the
war came from the other side
happy and there are those who make play the
children
today we have created a
foundation called the foundation I
want to play
we decided to put makers of
life we also distance the foundation
I want to play wants to push the kids
from war to love new life
wants to make them feel the sense of
life because really loving more
in addition we want to create an army
of lovers of life is the best
army against the war so why
the game we are often made we get
often criticized we get told but
ok the game can wait there are others
emergencies frankly the kids have
need but your going to school the
children need to eat from
dress of course but if I you
tell why the game for a child is
as if I told you life can
expect
because the game is the work of the
children
it is the essence of living beings
for a child even animals play
it’s the game the game is the
movement of the natural nature for
to be part of life to take it
to test it I have a little kitten
recent weeks it jumps
everywhere they try everything and thrush everything
he turns everywhere it’s really his
natural way of knowing the world
in which he is to know himself
himself and find his place play
in fact it is and I work in
the game is what I do in life
I create children’s games for that
that I believe in the game play it’s
create a space with certain rules
and in the interior of this space where
you are safe you are completely
free play is also an action
and have a reaction just this
reaction gives you a sense of life
and fulfillment of john the hymn not
really we’re looking for
in addition to play is to play with the
other so sacred connections that you
redo alive smell it takes again the
power inside you on the
life when I play I am deeply
living
we even saw the impact of our
action
a month ago we created our first
play area in northern syria
below turkey in a camp
refugees called hotmail there are
300 children living in this camp
refugees with their parents we have
created a large play area with
ddd soccer field
basket ball with all you need for
really play and be completely
in a bubble of play and childhood in
a week ago there were three thousand children
who came from all around
all the other camps play in with
their parents in life actually this is
a call to life we have seen that
even in the midst of misery
despair calls life she will make
miracles
I dream that one day everywhere in Syria
and all over the world there are
calls to life as calls to the
prayer like church steeples and
we would see all the living come and play
to be happy to be together because
children from my country will not be
that survivors of the war nor that
refugees
the children of my country because they
have experienced war they will
big living and that’s the best
slap that we can give to the war
thank you
[Applause]
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